We are now casting for Lines, a meta-comedy premiering at the Hollywood Fringe this summer in June of 2024. Below is a dedicated page with all of the information: character bios, key dates, rehearsal commitment details, and next steps. Check out the Instagram to meet the dm and chat.🌟
📝 SUMMARY
Lines opens on a blank stage with nothing but an empty hospital bed. One by one, members of the Jennings family enter the hospice room to say goodbye to Gladys, their dying matriarch.
This repeats the next day, and the next…and family tensions are revealed as they deliver monologues of regret, resentment, and gratitude to the sound of a heart rate monitor.
Without any warning, the Playwright stands and calls the whole thing off, declaring their work "a piece of sh*t." From the back row, an Audience Member convinces them to finish.
The Playwright, with nudges and advice from the Audience Member, begins to write new scenes in real time, experimenting with different themes, introducing and then retracting new plot points, changing character’s traits, and struggling to generate something that feels authentic and true to the story — especially for the character Gerry.
Gerry remains inconsistent, mysterious, or absent until the climax of the play when it is revealed that Gerry is in fact the self-insert of the Playwright [they/them], who is reckoning with their complicated relationship with their own recently deceased mother.
Only by acknowledging their grief does the Playwright finally figure out how to write Gerry’s goodbye to their mother — and they enter the play to deliver the final monologue in a moment of long-awaited catharsis and vulnerability. More
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